The Football Association are set to ask world football governing body Fifa to put pressure on eight agents to co-operate with the Lord Stevens bungs inquiry.

Officials from Stevens' firm Quest met the FA yesterday for the first time since the former Metropolitan Police commissioner published the findings of his inquiry into illegal payments.

The identities of the eight agents, all of whom have a foreign connection, were handed over to the FA.

It is understood Quest also requested the FA to ask Fifa to pressurise the agents to open up their accounts, so that the money from 17 Premier League transfers can be traced.

An FA spokesman said: "This meeting was the first step of the next stage of this process."

At the meeting, members of the FA's compliance department were told they will have to wait before they will be given the identity of three clubs found by the inquiry to have breached transfer rules.

Investigators from Quest are still putting the final details of the case against the three clubs together.

Stevens revealed before Christmas that eight agents had refused to co-operate with the inquiry, that three Premier League clubs breached transfer rules because they did not know the correct regulations and that 16 clubs failed to document financial arrangements connected to transfers appropriately.

All of the 17 remaining transfers have an international element to them, and in places such as South America transfer fees are often split between numerous parties.